Example sentences of "than a [noun sg] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | Because of this , Figure 4 looks more like a pedigree of species than a pedigree of individuals , but the principle is the same . |
| 2 | Eleven years on , this continues , though now there is perhaps more than a tinge of pity for my ‘ lonely ’ existence . |
| 3 | I 'm rapidly coming to the opinion that one large tough fish is easier to monitor in less-than-perfect conditions such as a new tank than a shoal of small stuff . |
| 4 | Today , of course , the process is mechanized ; four hundred razor-sharp cutting discs slice more than a yard of cloth in one swift pass . |
| 5 | First , the effect is pathway-specific ; that is , it occurs only in the cells to which the conditioning train is delivered , rather than spreading across to others — it is thus the result of the functioning of a network of specific connections rather than a wave of diffuse activity ; because there are several distinct input pathways to separate areas even within a single hippocampal slice , this specificity can be elegantly demonstrated . |
| 6 | First he made a gourd spring up to protect Jonah from the sun ( by ‘ gourd ’ we are to understand something like the castor-oil plant or Palma Christi , with its rapid growth and all-sheltering leaves ) ; then , with no more than a wave of the silk handkerchief , he sent a maggot to destroy the said gourd , leaving Jonah painfully exposed to the heat . |
| 7 | Vaughan 's constant sense that he was one of life 's outsiders , never a participant , that he was always ‘ trying to hold on to a reality which is no more than a projection of my own nerves ’ , made him sympathetic to the blighted , visionary anti-hero in Benjamin Britten 's opera , Peter Grimes , the première of which marked the reopening of the Sadler 's Wells Theatre after the war . |
| 8 | The autistic child may have any of these abilities to a considerably greater degree than a child of higher or even very high intelligence . |
| 9 | Her papoose — not much bigger than a child of ten or twelve , so insubstantial had Sycorax become — was slid into the shaft feet first , so that Sycorax 's head was nearest to the surface of the ground , slightly tilted so that she would face upwards in death , her mouth near the earth and the living who walked on it . |
| 10 | He was six years old , but had no more sense than a child of three . |
| 11 | ( At the extremes , a child of professional parents was about 20 times more likely than a child of semi-skilled and unskilled workers to enter full-time higher education . ) |
| 12 | For those bombastic outbursts , Gerard shrewdly blamed ‘ the effect of his infernal military education , commencing when he was a child ’ and here indeed , when one recalls the poses being struck throughout pre-war Europe , the Crown Prince appears as little more than a child of the age . |
| 13 | Being healthy is more than a question of not being ill . |
| 14 | Being healthy is more than a question of not being ill . |
| 15 | All this , in the end , is more than a question of style : it is a question of judgement and of taste , and ultimately of morality . |
| 16 | But Lij Yasu 's partiality for Islam was apparently more than a question of convenience . |
| 17 | To the people of England , it is more than a question of who administers local government : the lines on the map , the cricket teams , the Lords Lieutenants and signposts are important . |
| 18 | You are directly discriminated against if treated less favourably than a person of the opposite sex is or would be treated , or if you are treated less favourably on racial grounds . |
| 19 | a person of one sex is treated less favourably , on the ground of sex , than a person of the other sex would be in the same or not materially different circumstances . |
| 20 | Perhaps Somalia has more in common with Chad , another desert full of warlords , where the toppling of one gang by another caused no more than a bit of looting last month . |
| 21 | Leaving white wines unfiltered is certainly far more revolutionary than a bit of oak . |
| 22 | Typically , he will cite the film All the President 's Men as one of liberal Hollywood 's morale-sapping strikes at US institutions without ever noticing that Richard Milhous Nixon managed more than a bit of subverting on his own account . |
| 23 | With DOS it 's all clean and simple , no more than a bit of tweaking for CONFIG.SYS and AUTOEXEC.BAT . |
| 24 | The fact was that Corbett was more than a bit of an embarrassment . |
| 25 | I referred to it and you oddly enough in a handwritten letter to my father the other night after referring to Lord XXXXX one of whose contemporaries and friends is coming to stay here a couple of nights next week , and who has been a pillar in the fabric of my life , a man for whom consistency , continuity and courtesy are all — and who is often concerned at the unhappiness which is my ? ? ? ? ? ? ? it is in anything other than a bit of paper , which most of my old friends who wish me well , doubt ) … |
| 26 | He was n't very bright and he was more than a bit of a bore with it . ’ |
| 27 | Afterwards , looking back , Sara knew that if she were asked she would put a circle round this evening , this particular point in time , and say , " That 's when the heartache began , " a tiny little pain to begin with , no more than a tremor of consciousness , the veriest pinprick . |
| 28 | More than a tint of the tarbrush there , if you ask me . ’ |
| 29 | ‘ We estimate they brought more than a kilo of heroin into France . ’ |
| 30 | The boy was so small ; more like a child of eight than a boy of fifteen . |